Re: PARI 2.6 syntax 2: [f(x)|x<-a,b(x)]

[Bernadette.Perrin-Riou@math.u-psud.fr]

A naive question. What about [ 1, 2;
3,4] if it is sensible to space ?
Every such situation should be taken in account.
Why not quotes for reserved words as "in" ?

I care about backwards compatibility ... if not, many exercises
that are using Pari in WIMS would be potentially broken !

Bernadette
Joerg Arndt <arndt@jjj.de> a ÃcritÂ:

> * Andreas Enge <andreas.enge@inria.fr> [Mar 09. 2013 09:12]:
> > On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 01:41:15PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > Space are ignored, so 'x in a' is read as 'xina'.
> >
> > This might be a good occasion to declare spaces as significant in the
> > lexical analysis step...
>
> If at all possible, let's *please* do this.
>
> > It would break backwards compatibility, but are
> > there really people who write
> > a
> >
> > b   =
> > 1 2
> > when they mean
> > ab=12
> > ?
>
> Possibly a subset of the folks that hammer nails
> into their knees in their spare time.
>
>
> > Andreas